Of course the spinning wheels spun in the last weeks and I also knitted a bit. In Emsland I fetched a big sack of fresh wool (Texel x Schwarzkopfschaf) from a butcher and he asked for a pair of thick socks for that wool. Usually I don’t do that and would give the wool back. But I was on holidays and in a good mood and so I agreed. I washed a bit of wool and spun it from the locks. Then I navajoplied it. After one and a half weeks I brought him the socks, and he was overwhelmed. I guess he did not believe he would really get socks and if so, then just simple ones. He liked them a lot. He gave us some saussagees in additon, it seems he thought the wool was too little for those socks.

Sometimes it is quite handy if you don’t have if you don’t have Intenet access, I spun a lot in the evenings. To the left 200 grams Uruguay wool, next to it two skeins of Cormo wool selfdyed and to the right the remaining skeins of spun batts of Llanwenog wool. And Merlin likes the wool.

Back home the spinning wheel continued spinning, the Cormo wool emerald-teal is completely spun now, about 3200 metres. So I have to think about if this might become a weaving project. The wool to the right is Alpaca, spun from tops. It was almost ok to spin it, but my asthma doesn’t really like spining Alpaca, so I wont do that too often.